Frederick Smith, 3rd Earl of Birkenhead
Politician
1936 – 1985
Who was Frederick Smith, 3rd Earl of Birkenhead?
Frederick William Robin Smith, 3rd Earl of Birkenhead. Smith, the grandson of a British Lord Chancellor, succeeded to the Earldom upon his father's death in 1975.
Writing under his pen name of Robin Furneaux, Lord Birkenhead won the Heinemann Award in 1975 for William Wilberforce, his biography of the antislavery campaigner. He also was known for his 1970 book The Amazon: The Story of a Great River, based on an expedition he made along the Amazon River in 1968.
He died of a heart attack whilst playing real tennis at the Leamington Spa Tennis and Squash Club.
The title became extinct upon his death.
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